Tag: games

  • A Few Words on Wordle

    04 Feb 2022 » 3 min read

    Sometime in January I began to notice those yellow-and-green heatmap like grids of 5×6 squares showing up in my Twitter and Facebook feeds. I had no idea what they were, but they reminded me of celluar automata. They seemed to replicate like celluar automata, too, because before long, it seemed like many friends and family…

  • Scorched Earth

    01 Dec 2011 » 1 min read about Personal & Family

    I’m not much of a gamer. (For great posts about gaming, check out Paul Weimer‘s Roll Perception Plus Awareness column over at SF Signal.) But every once in a while I come across a game that I used to play that I really enjoyed. I’ve written about Stunts and LHX and one of my all-time-favorites,…

  • Facebook game requests

    24 May 2011 » 2 min read about social networking

    For reasons I am not clear on, I have received a flood of game requests for the various games that are played in the Facebook world. To save potential game requesters a little bit of time in the future (and to quote President Obama): “Let me be clear…” I don’t do Facebook games. Please don’t…

  • I don’t do Facebook games

    12 Feb 2011 » 1 min read about social networking

    Since the number of requests that I receive to participate in various Facebook games seems to be going up, I thought I’d take a brief moment to make my position of Facebook games unequivocally clear: I don’t do Facebook games. This is nothing personal. But if you were to take a look at my schedule,…

  • Valentine’s day in Albany

    15 Feb 2009 » 1 min read about Travel

    I gave Kelly her Valentine’s gift yesterday, since we had a busy day today, and she gave me not one but two cards this morning, which made me realize that I hadn’t gotten her any cards.  Nevertheless, we had a very nice Valentine’s day–our first as a married couple.  I was up at 6 AM to feed the…

  • Another Rock Band day

    04 Jan 2009 » 2 min read

    We slept in this morning, which was nice.  I think we were finally up at around 9 AM.  Kelly made waffles, with the waffle-maker we received from AJ and Denisse.  After breakfast, I went to the concierge to collect the package we received yesterday.  I turned out to be the stroller that Jason and Logan got for…

  • Lego Star Wars

    31 Dec 2008 » 1 min read about Work & Career

    Productive work day today.  It was one of those days where I told myself that I was going to solve a particular problem before I left the office, and sure enough, shortly after lunch, I had the problem solved.  I was pleased with that. I had leftovers for dinner and steamed some broccoli for Kelly to go along with…

  • Election day, part 1

    04 Nov 2008 » 1 min read

    I was up ridiculously late last night–until almost 2 AM.  I started playing Tiger Woods 2009 at around 9:30 PM and ended up in a tournament that I eventually won, but it took a long, long time.  I can’t recall the last time I did something like that.  Nevertheless, I was up at 6:30 this morning, excited for…

  • Rockin’ out and cleanin’ house

    05 Oct 2008 » 1 min read about Sports

    Last night we went t a friend’s house to play Rock Band.  It was my first time playing.  We started the evening off with some good pizza from a local pizza joint.  The three of us started playing Rock Band around 8:30 PM.  When we finally decided to call it quits, it was nearly 1:30 AM!…

  • Scrabulous!

    23 Jul 2008 » 1 min read

    kruppenheimer and I finished our marathon game of Scrabulous on facebook today. Lisa made a come-from-behind win. She has more to say about it here including a final image of our game board. Congratulations, Lisa!

  • We’re cheating on video games now?

    31 Mar 2008 » 1 min read about Sports

    This has probably been going on for quite some time, right under my nose, but my attention was drawn to it by this Yahoo!Tech article I saw this morning. Apparently, cheating at video games has been steadily on the rise and has become enough of a problem that cheaters are being punished. Set aside the…

  • New York weekend, day 1

    11 Nov 2007 » 1 min read about Personal & Family

    [Written on November 12, 2007] Kelly and I hit the road at 7 AM. The GPS predicted a 11:12 AM arrival in Stony Point at vickyandnorm‘s house. We were there at almost exactly 11 AM. Boy, making that drive with someone to talk to in the car makes a huge difference. The time flew by…